CVE-2014-7186

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 64.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The redirection implementation in parse.y in GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-026 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted use of here documents, aka the "redir_stack" issue.

Affected products

GNU Bash: 1.14.0, 1.14.1, 1.14.2, 1.14.3, 1.14.4, 1.14.5 (+22)

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN55667175/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2014-000126
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00038.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00041.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00042.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00044.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00048.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141330468527613&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141345648114150&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141383026420882&w=2

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